[FRC Blog] 2016 Safety Animation Award Competition Details

[Taylor]

How easily we forget:

WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE GAME.

Perhaps it would be nice to view what is rather than what we expect will be. If this ridiculousness had been applied to 2012 or 2013, very popular games, before they were announced - we would have had unfounded bedlam.

2012: Oh no it's a basketball game isn't Dean on record saying that knowing how to bounce a ball isn't a translatable skill and we're promoting a ridiculous game that features a culture that celebrates not finishing college and it's all awful and horrible and I heard the owners are racist and we'll probably have Kobe Bryant come to a competition and he didn't even go to college is this how we want to present ourselves?

2013: Oh great frisbees another niche culture now we'll be associated with the pot smoking hippies lounging around the quad rather than studying and applying themselves to making the world a better place and oh my goodness there are pyramids what a horrible bit of history to celebrate first they were built with slave labor are we saying we are pro-slavery because if so my team quits.

Of course neither of these games ended up this way. I personally have a lot of trust in FIRST to provide inspiration and recognition of science and technology. I have not heard any students say, "I didn't like Lunacy/Recycle Rush/minibots so I'm not going to be an engineer anymore I think I'll study cosmetology."

Let's sheathe the pitchforks and douse the torches for another two months, shall we?

[Foster]

Originally Posted by Taylor

How easily we forget:

WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE GAME.
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Let's sheathe the pitchforks and douse the torches for another two months, shall we?

Right. Trashing a game based on a 2 min trailer is pretty messed up.

To get back on to the Safety Animation, I'd love to see one that has a team:

* Plaster vinyl safety stickers all over the floor turning the entire pit area into a slip and slide, the show other teams skidding around.
* Roboteers run up to a team pit and plaster every square inch with safety stickers so that all you can see is the stickers.
* Robot cart with 8 horns on a tower above the robot yelling "Robot" where the visual sound waves (hey its an animation) bowl / fling people out of the way

A humor version of what not to do....